State v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2019
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No citation of authority is necessary for the statement that in a criminal case in this jurisdiction a defendant is presumed to be innocent of the offense charged and every necessary element thereof until his guilt is established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sperou“subjective fact * * * seldom susceptible of direct proof [and] * * * usually established by a consideration of objective facts, and from th[ose] objective facts an ultimate conclusion is drawn”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[d]oubt is only removed when a jury returns a verdict of guilty, for the presumption of innocence is a disputable question which goes with the jury into the jury room for consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boots
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.